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What appears to deprive the populace of its power to decide a president is the very mechanism that preserves its power. The Electoral College works that way because the United States isn’t a pure democracy.

My degree is in Political Science, I've worked in politics, I understand why we need the Electoral College. It is absolute lunacy to suggest getting rid of it. This author wrote four books about the EC. She should be listened to.

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Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand

This is the United States of America. It is not the "United People of America." Would anyone even be complaining if they liked the President more? We shouldn't throw away our system, which works incredibly well, just because a handful of people would rather destroy it than work from within it.

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Of 27 Deadliest Mass Shooters, 26 of Them Were Fatherless | RealClearPolitics

The biggest issue in this country, and it touches on almost everything, is fatherlessness. Very few people want to seriously discuss it because it is contrary to so many of the currently en vogue political narratives cherished by some people nearly as religious doctrine.

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Despite accusations of anti-Semitism, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is due to speak at a fundraising event alongside a senior charity official who has published social-media posts praising the killing of Jews.

She needs to be censured, removed from ALL of her committee assignments, and then, if this continues, removed from office. We would demand no less if she were a Republican.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, one day after Trump rebuffed top advisers and decided to pull all U.S. troops out of Syria.

The decision to leave Syria is a win for Iran and Russia. Period. It is a huge mistake. It will eventually put American and Israeli lives at risk.

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The Trump administration is expanding employers' ability to give workers cash to buy heath care coverage elsewhere, including on the Obamacare exchanges, senior officials announced Monday.

The last job I had that included healthcare provided the option of the corporate plan or a reimbursement to purchase our own plan. At the time, pre-Obamacare, I chose the reimbursement because I could still get better insurance for less money than the corporate plan. After Obamacare passed, my premiums on the private plan immediately doubled and I lost it. So for me at least, despite what Obama promised, I was able to keep neither my doctor or my plan. Surprise. This is a very positive move by the Trump administration.

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In midterm elections, with different candidates on the ballot in every state and district, it’s rare to see the sort of sharp, turn-on-a-dime shifts in the poll…

The GOP WILL retain the Senate, the House...probably not. It doesn't look like the Kavanaugh situation has helped their chances in the lower house. Obviously, that can change. Polls ALWAYS tighten up just before election day.

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Scott Pruitt resigned from his position leading the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, following months of high-profile controversies regarding his spending, ethics and management at the agency. "I have

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In 2013, Charles Krauthammer was the featured speaker at The Weekly Standard “summit” at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado. His performance was scintillating. He surprised the crowd with his sense of humor. He took questions.

Left or right, everyone with a functioning mind understood the brilliance of Charles Krauthammer. Rarely has one person been able to raise the level of discourse in the country. I loved his columns. I truly regret never having met him. He was a personal hero for many reasons

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Longtime Fox News commentator said in early June that he had "only a few weeks left to live" after a battle with cancer.

I am the co-founder of Moptu. Ultimately, this platform was a result of the co-founders love of politics. Not the divisive, loud, hyperbolic politics that we’re experiencing now, but a much more intellectual brand of politics. I have been reading Charles Krauthammer’s colimns for decades. I was amazed, literally, throughout by his insight, his mental acuity, his very real bravery, his sense of humanity and, most of all, his absolute dedication to intellectual honesty. This is a big loss for political discourse in our country at a time when reasonable voices are increasingly rare. He was a giant. I also found out today that he loved dogs; he was a great man. It’s a very sad day for our country.

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Seattle is ground zero for progressive experiments... (Its) recent contributions to the liberal virosphere include... a $275 head tax per employee to raise $48 million annually to address a rising homeless population of almost 12,000 people in a city of 7

This is so obviously misguided, it's hard to understand how anyone can support it.

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If we make people stay in the ethnic and racial lane assigned to them by accident of birth, we’ll lose everything that makes this country great.

This article should be required reading for everyone. The idea of "cultural appropriation" is diametrically opposed to the very American idea of the melting pot, or "e pluribus unum," which means "out of many, one." The best of what Americans are comes from a shared culture derived from many sources. Cultural appropriation is a regressive, foolish, and dangerous idea.

From the article (a comment that I especially related to:

"Consider the simple act of eating a meal in an era of cultural purity. This weekend I had dinner in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, cooked by a Palestinian who was raised in Israel where her brother served in Parliament. Yet her restaurant is billed as Lebanese. And she accents her traditional dishes with herbs that would never be found on a plate in the Levant. But if proponents of cultural purity had their way, I’d have spent the evening cordoned on the Upper West Side watching “Yentl” and eating gefilte fish.""

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The Hill is backing out of next year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, unless the association that oversees the annual black-tie event makes some changes.

The Hill is usually pretty fair. They’re getting this right. No matter your feelings about any president, what occurred at the last White House Correspondents Dinner was pathetically, and absolutely needlessly, partisan, which is an unfortunate trend in public life.

As a still youngish owner of a social media startup (compared to some of the Senators anyway), I can fully empathize with the frustration that Zuckerberg must have felt with some of these questions. The reaction on Twitter was hilarious. For example:

“Mr. Zuckerberg, a magazine i recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?"

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CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Thursday confronted the Holocaust denier who is the sole GOP candidate running for an Illinois House seat.

his guy is absolutely disgusting. Obviously. The GOP disavowed him. And he has a right to run. But...he is a disgusting, revolting, waste of biological matter. The GOP needs to find someone to write in in this district.

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Senate Republicans are working to shore up enough votes within their caucus to pass tax reform next week, even in the unlikely but possible scenario that two Republican senators are absent for the big vote.

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Evidence suggests that no one broad gun-control restriction could make a big difference.

This is a great article (from a source that leans left) that displays a level of honesty rarely seen on either side these days. The ONLY thing that should ever matter in policy decisions are the facts. They are often too easily ignored. There is a very long list of policy positions that are based on emotions and not logic.

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This is from Politici-not exactly a bastion of right wing politcal thought. It has been obvious to many of us from day one that this deal is disaster waiting to culminate in a nuclearized Iran. It's time that those that still don't see it wake up and accept the obvious.

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The annual Constitution Day survey of American knowledge of the Constitution was released today. Don't get your hopes up; it's as depressing as ever.

This is just pathetic. One third of Americans can't name ONE of the three branches of government? Only 25% can name all three? One third can't name A SINGLE RIGHT? Clearly, our educational system has failed. We really need to rethink our commonly held assumption that anyone should vote. The Founders assumed a certain level of understanding in those that voted. Doesn't it seem obvious that allowing completely uninformed people to vote is a mistake? So we have two choices, limit who can vote, OR start educating the populace again. I vote for the latter!

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“Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade on Monday questioned whether a memorial built to remember the airline passengers who took down a fourth plane on Sept. 11, 2001, over Pennsylvania might some day be taken down.

This just disgusts me. The memorial to the 9/11 heroes is analogous to memorials for UNION soldiers and heroes of the Cicil War, not memorials for those who took up arms against the United States. Fox continues to be more and more irrelevant. This guy should lose his job for inane remarks that disparage the memories of 9/11 victims, history, and logic. How dare he (or anyone) play politics with 9/11?

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President Donald Trump claimed that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper "famously got caught lying to Congress" in a Thursday tweet.

I remember the days when adults, in both parties, understood that it was not proper, or advantageous in any way, to discuss most aspects of our covert national security operations in public hearings. But here we have a republican President of the United States, essentially defending democrats who questioned James Clapper's attempt to keep covert operations covert, very probably out of sincere concern for national security, because his feelings are still in their adolescence.

At the same time, he seems to be defending the actions of a traitor, Edward Snowden, because to deem Clapper a "liar," you need to also believe that what Snowden did was honorable; without Snowden, the information that Trump is using to to clam that Clapper lied, came from his treasonous activities. And, even with all of that, it is still unclear whether Clapper lied. So claiming that he "famously lied" isn't remotely accurate. But why let the facts get in the way? If the tables were turned, and a democratic POTUS made the same claim about Clapper, many republicans would be absolutely apoplectic about it: and they would be absolutely right.

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Nashville — I grew up on Missionary Ridge, a Civil War battlefield overlooking Chattanooga, Tenn. In my childhood we could still find minie balls from the battle in which a young Union soldier, Arthur MacArthur, the father of Douglas, received the Medal of Honor.

Jon Meacham nails this one.

"In the ensuing chaos, President Trump spoke of the “many sides” of the debate and defended the neo-Confederate view. “I wonder,” Mr. Trump said, “is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you really have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”

To me, the answer to Mr. Trump’s question begins with a straightforward test: Was the person to whom a monument is erected on public property devoted to the American experiment in liberty and self-government?"

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Antifa's activists say they're battling burgeoning authoritarianism on the American right. Are they fueling it instead?

This was written before Charlottesville by a left leaning writer. While I FULLY disagree with the president's assertion that there were "good people" on both sides in Charlottesville, both democrats and republicans need to acknowledge the violence originating on the extremes of their side. Neither is free from violent extremism, and it's time for people to stop pretending that their side is virtuous while the other side has exclusive ownership of the problem.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly impaneled a grand jury in Washington as part of the ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

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OPINION | The Supreme Court's stay should concentrate minds in both the judiciary and the media on the loss of objectivity in analysis over the president's immigration order.

I agree with this. People MUST judge the things Trump does on the merits and NOT on whether they hate (or like) Trump. I think the SCOTUS was absolutely correct here and agree that:

"The court ruled “when it comes to refugees who lack any such connection to the United States, for the reasons we have set out, the balance tips in favor of the Government’s compelling need to provide for the Nation’s security.”

It's time for everyone to grow up and start thinking about the welfare of the country, and to stop putting the narrative above all else.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the military on Thursday to carry out a missile attack on Syrian forces for using chemical weapons against civilians. The unilateral attack lacked authorization from Congress or from the United Nations Security Council, raising the question of whether he had legal authority to commit the act of war.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the military on Thursday to carry out a missile attack on Syrian forces for using chemical weapons against civilians. The unilateral attack lacked authorization from Congress or from the United Nations Security Council, raising the question of whether he had legal authority to commit the act of war.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the military on Thursday to carry out a missile attack on Syrian forces for using chemical weapons against civilians. The unilateral attack lacked authorization from Congress or from the United Nations Security Council, raising the question of whether he had legal authority to commit the act of war.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the military on Thursday to carry out a missile attack on Syrian forces for using chemical weapons against civilians. The unilateral attack lacked authorization from Congress or from the United Nations Security Council, raising the question of whether he had legal authority to commit the act of war.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch is now going to the Senate floor. The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, has pledged to lead Democrats in a filibuster of the nomination.

The idea that a 60 vote majority is necessary for cloture is not an ancient, embedded, original feature of the Senate, and neither are Judiciary hearings. I support the idea of a filibuster, but originally, cloture did not exist and endless filibusters won't work in 2017.

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The Long Read: Russia’s role in Trump’s election has led to a boom in Putinology. But do all these theories say more about us than Putin?

I don't agree with some of the assertions in this, but overall, it is an excellent article. I thought that I understood Putin. He isn't the evil KGB genius as much as he is yet another average guy who was just smart enough, just ruthless enough, and in the right place at the right time enough to become what he is. It seems like a lot of malevolent leaders, he is skilled at manipulating an image that he often hasn't earned, for his own benefit.

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In response to a question Thursday about threats to Jewish centers nationwide, President Donald Trump called a Jewish reporter a liar, told him to sit down and later said anti-Semitism was coming from "the other side."

This is pretty disgusting and brings up a range of issues. First and foremost is that apparently Trump can do as he pleases because when the press, and particularly CNN, reports it, he shouts "fake news" and his followers believe him.

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White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Tuesday that she does not know who was operating her Twitter account when it was used to retweet a white nationalist.

I say this as a political scientist, not from any particular ideological perspective: this needs to stop. She is obviously lying. On the one hand, "people make mistakes," but on the other hand she doesn't know "who has access" to her Twitter. So which is it? She is an obvious liar and it's bad for the administration, which means, one way or the other, it is bad for the country. She is still operating as a campaign operative, not as a member of the government. It's pretty repulsive.

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"I'll be honest, I don't know what the president is trying to do with statements like these," the Nebraska Senator said.

The same people who are defending Trump's position on this would be going crazy if a democrat made identical comments, and they would be right. Ben Sasse is 100% correct on this and is the GOP's most eloquent critic of the administration.

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EPA grants have reportedly been frozen, with agency employees barred from speaking about it.

So he's on Twitter constantly, but the employees of at least two agencies can't be? Is he a president or a monarch? I have been saying for months that it is astonishing that ANYONE can view Trump as a defender of the Constitution when he so clearly disdains the First Amendment.

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Since gaining international attention in 2010 with the release of nearly 100,000 classified logs of the war in Iraq, Wikileaks — often through the actions of its founder Julian Assange — has repeatedly come under fire for anti-Semitism.

It is very problematic that both the left, and the right, for very different reasons, have helped legitimize this man and his organization. Neither deserve legitimacy or respect.

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“The rest is American, let’s say, internal matters, I wouldn't worry about. But the question [is] whether Trump has the will or the ability to implement what he just mentioned.”

Remember when people complained that Obama must be bad because leftist thugs like Castro, Chavez and Putin applauded his successful election? Now we're seeing the same exact thing with Trump and those same people are utterly silent. This isn't about terrorism. Assad couldn't care less about terrorism. Syria under both he and his father was a leading state sponsor of terror for decades. He is concerned with ISIS because the Islamic fundamentalists oppose his largely secular regime. He invited Russia to fight ISIS alongside Syria to save himself, but also to attempt to marginalize Israel. And THAT is what this is about. He believes that Russia will diminish the American role in the region, thus removing some of the influence of Israel's greatest ally in the Middle East.

"As I mentioned in this post in late November, and in this followup, and also in a discussion with Diane Rehm on her new podcast series yesterday, Donald Trump’s lies differ from those we have encountered from other national figures, even Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton during their respective impeachments. The difference is that Trump seemingly does not care that evidence is immediately at hand to disprove what he says. If he believes what he’s saying, at least in that moment, why shouldn’t we? For the record, the latest entry of this sort is the repeated insistence by Trump and his associates that he won a “landslide” or “major” victory."

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Downplaying the racist views of Trump supporters is an evasion of the facts.

This is a fascinating article. So often I am told, when I bring up some of Trump's bigoted remarks, or his appointment of Stave Bannon, that I am accusing all of Trump's supporters of being bigots or racists. I would not do that and I have not done that. Some of the most intelligent people I know voted for Trump. However, it is highly disingenuous not to acknowledge that the Trump campaign did manipulate the fears and biases of many of his supporters. Not all of his supporters are racists, but there is a reason why all racists and bigots support Trump.

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The ex-Breitbart News chief, who has been accused of anti-Semitism while running the far-right site, officially has the president-elect's ear.

I don't like Steve Bannon. There is no excuse, none, for his embrace of the alt right. The left has cried wolf so often on racism that when a serious bigot shows up, people who support this person can delude tell themselves into believing that this is another case of that. It is not. On the other side, it's like he has to show up wearing a sheet and a pointy hood before Trump's supporters will acknowledge that Bannon is a bigot. Except: he is a bigot.

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Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle.

Steve Bannon is an absolutely disgusting human being. Trump's followers will make excuses for this because they make excuses for everything Trump does no matter how wrong, illogical, or obviously offensive it is. Men like Bannon should have absolutely no place in American public life, much less be in the White House.

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From my culture’s history, I know that when a demagogue begins to identify scapegoats, the Jews are never far behind.

If you know me, you know that I have been imploring people for years to only make the "antisemitism" claim when it is truly valid. There are a few reasons for that, the most important of which is the fact overuse of the term diminishes its impIf you know me, you know that I have been imploring people for years to only make the "antisemitism" claim when it is truly valid. There are a few reasons for that, the most important of which is the fact overuse of the term diminishes its impact. As a Jew, I don't think it's beneficial for our community to see antisemitism under every rock because that type of over-sensitivity is not productive. But, if you really know me, you also know that I will not risk rate actual bigotry, including antisemitism, at all. Ever. Trump has skirted the boundaries of the dividing line between obvious antisemitism and implied antisemitism for a while now (although he is very obviously a bigot in other ways). His actions over the past few days have thrust him past the boundary "implied" and into the "obvious."

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Are you kidding? This is the most immature man that has run for president in our history. SNL has been on since I was a little kid.They have been making fun of politicians that entire time. I can't remember a single politician whining about being satirized. This goes along with his threat to weaken freedom of the press by changing libel laws.

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The paper has never endorsed a Democrat for president in its nearly 150-year history.

Several conservative leaning papers have come out to endorse Clinton. The reason why is obvious. Neither choice is ideal, but one is clearly unfit to be president. It's amazing to me that this is the choice the best that the country could do. It's a very sad situation.

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NBC News has exclusive details about the session where Trump claims he read "body language."

The people who conduct these meetings are intelligence officers and not policy advisors. It is VERY difficult to believe that any of them expressed any opinions at all on matters of policy.

"A political candidate has used professional intelligence officers briefing him in a totally non-political setting as props to buttress an argument for his political campaign," said Hayden. "And his political point was actually imputed to them, not even something they allegedly said. The `I can read body language' line was quite remarkable. ... I am confident Director Clapper sent senior professionals to this meeting and so I am equally confident that no such body language ever existed. It's simply not what we do."

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Bannon's ex-wife said in 2007 he didn't want their kids at a school with Jewish students.

One of the many things that I don't get about the support for Trump is how people can keep telling themselves that he will surround himself with "the best people." So far his people have been a disaster. This disgusting man is exhibit A.

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Nonpartisan prognosticators and party officials seem bleak about the GOP’s chances in November. But delegates in Cleveland were at least somewhat more optimistic.

The Republicans ignore he evidence at their own peril. For the past several elections, the Democrats have run far more sophisticated campaigns (at the national level). They need to understand the reality of the situation outside of their direct universe.

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The Constitution directs the president to periodically “give to the Congress information of the State of the Union,” and most presidents since Woodrow Wilson have delivered that “information” in a formal speech. But nothing in the Constitution req

There has been a lot made about Scalia skipping State of the Union speeches. The Justices are under no obligation to attend a SOTU. We have three co-equal branches of government. The president is not a king. The Court is non-partisan. The SOTU no longer is. It is perfectly reasonable for them to not attend. I remember the days when the Court was considered to be above politics. The objectivity of the Court is crucial in keeping the country from descending into a completely partisan mess.

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Though Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide over Hillary Clinton, he will likely receive fewer delegates than she will.

The Democratic party has "super delegates," which are baically delegates that can vote any way they choose. In this case, it seems like most of them have chosen Hillary, although they can change at the convention. The Republicans have extra delegates, but RNC rules require the to vote with the voters of each state.

With the New Hampshire primary happening tomorrow, a new Emerson College statewide survey shows Republican Donald Trump poised to win in the Granite State with 31% of likely GOP primary voters. The battle is on for second place, with the next four candidates separated by just 5 percentage points...

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Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons.

Wow. Just wow. I love our system. Iowa is particularly interesting because they do national politics at the community level in a very personal way. It's very American in it's own way. hen again, campaign season is for me what the Super Bowl or Olympics are for most people.

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The US lost Apple's manufacturing jobs years ago, and probably for good. Steve Jobs is rumored to have said as much at a high-power Silicon Valley dinner in 2011, when he told President Barack...

Really? And how exactly will he do this? Trump appeals to those who are enamored with hero worship and authoritarianism. Nearly everything he says seems to be part of some megalomaniacal fantasy. I would LOVE it if Apple brings more jobs home. That isn't the issue here. The issue is Trump continually making authoritarian promises that he can't possibly fulfill. Speaking for myself, I want a president, not a dictator.

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A surprising focus on Senator Marco Rubio’s shiny, stack-heeled ankle boots, first noted in a desultory Twitter post on Monday by a New York Times reporter, has grown over the last few days into one of the weirder firestorms of the presidential campaign, with rival candidates and the news media all adding tinder to the flames.

I'm sold. I was literally looking at these exact visits tonight. The man is obviously a closet rock and roller. These are basically Beatle boots. My background and education is (partially) in politics, so I will be looking at lots of other factors. But I do like the man's taste in boots.

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The Republican National Committee told NBC in a letter today it is suspending plans for a February debate on the network over the use of "gotcha" questions.

I understand why they are doing this, but I think it's a mistake. Yes, the questions from the last debate were chilishly petty (many of them), but being POTUS is a tough job and I think handling yourself with dignity in a more hostile debate environment is ultimately a positive for the candidates who can handle it.

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Her vitriolic Tweets about the Republican Party pandering to Jewish voters has attracted alarming support across social media.

Ann Coulter has been losing it for quite a while now. Last night she demonstrated that it is now completely lost. She is also demonstrating the deep rooted bigotry and xenophobia that is now acceptable on the far right.

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Right now, there's a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It's called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Au

This is a great video explaining the Electoral College - which is a complete mystery for most people.

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Right now, there's a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It's called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Au

Most people don't really understand how our electoral process really works. It's just not taught anymore. So I am posting a couple of videos that do a great job of explaining it!

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California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, a tenacious liberal whose election to the Senate in 1992 heralded a new era for women at the upper reaches of political power, announced Thursday she will not seek re-election to a new term next year.

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It’s time for our annual round-up of the biggest Pinocchios of the year.

The midterm elections, of course, dominated our coverage of false claims, as an avalanche of negative ads tumbled across televisions screens. Some of those ads, which made it onto our list of the worst campaign ads, have the dubious honor of also appearing on this list.

This is one of my favorite political columns of the year! We all know that many politicians are not always "accurate," but the annual list of their most atrocious falsehoods is always fascinating.

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The costliest midterm election in history draws to a bitter close with control of the Senate tilting toward Republicans even as governors, in red and blue states alike, face a well of anti-incumbent anger from New England to the Rocky Mountains.

I think people have very good reason to be angry with incumbents. Tomorrow should be fascinating.

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Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Paul Owen with rolling coverage of the results of the Scottish independence referendum as they come in, plus reaction and analysis of the vote that could lead to Scotland…

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On Tuesday, LA Weekly reported that several upscale restaurants in the City of Angels will be adding a 3 percent surcharge to cover their employees' healthcare costs, a trend that has been gaining steam since the Affordable Care Act launched nearly one ye

For people who don't understand what this means: the Democrats have decided that they would tie funding for the tech. that has saved thousands of Jewish lived to the border bill. If it passes, they get their bill, if it fails, they will claim that the Republicans don't care about Israel.

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If Congress can agree on a plan to give President Obama supplemental money to deal with the border crisis, it's going to be much less than he asked for. Senate appropriators released a plan Wednesday to provide Obama with $1 billion less than requested to

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In the first internationally coordinated effort, 230 cities in at least 33 countries, including the U.S., protested low wages at fast food restaurants.

Why don't people understand that minimum wage jobs are entry level and are meant as a gateway for young people into the business world. If fast food workers make $15+ an hour, why would they ever want to move up? ALL of the data shows that most people stay at minimum wage jobs for less than two years. Plus, this will mean LESS JOBS. Just like junk food taxes, this is regressive and will hurt the people that it is meant to help.

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In recognition of Independence Day, Gallup has released a poll on whether American citizens are still proud to be American. Ninety-three percent of Republicans indicate that they are “extremely/very proud” to be American while only 85 percent of Democ

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Each of them takes an oath to defend the Constitution, but many House lawmakers either don’t understand the founding document or don’t take its precepts seriously, according to an analysis by & test – this

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Each of them takes an oath to defend the Constitution, but many House lawmakers either don’t understand the founding document or don’t take its precepts seriously, according to an analysis by The Washington Times that studied the constitutional backing that representatives submitted for each of the more than 3,000 bills they introduced in 2011.